Fergus Kelly

Fergus Kelly
MRIA
Born
Ireland
NationalityIrish
Education
  • B.A. – University College Dublin (UCD)
  • Ph.D. – Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Known forA Guide to Early Irish Law (1988)

Fergus Kelly MRIA is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.

He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in the University of Oslo's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the University of Toronto. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh) of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.[1] In 2003 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture.[2] A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including A guide to early Irish law. He co-edits the journal Celtica and has collaborated with many others including Thomas Charles-Edwards.

Awards and recognition

Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.[3]

Publications

Kelly's publications include:

  • Audacht Morainn (Dublin 1976)
  • A guide to early Irish law (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995)
  • Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998)
  • Marriage Disputes: A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text (Dublin, 2014)
  • The Life & Work of Oisín Kelly (Carlow, 2015)
  • The MacEgan legal treatise (Dublin, 2020). Edition of work by Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin.

References

  1. ^ "Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies". Trinity Centre for Environmenal Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.
  2. ^ "Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lectures". The British Academy. text video
  3. ^ "Fergus Samuel Kelly". Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2021.